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Arthur T
Mostly a collection point for all my thoughts on apologetics and counter-apologetics as I've developed them over ten-odd years of arguing on the topic
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Arthur T
Mostly a collection point for all my thoughts on apologetics and counter-apologetics as I've developed them over ten-odd years of arguing on the topic
Arthur T
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Jun 10
[Theodicy: A Short Story
After a public debate, a Christian apologist and an atheist intellectual are swept aboard an alien spacecraft in a beam of brilliant white light.
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I’m a nontheist who doesn’t care too much about the problem of evil. That seems embarrassing to admit because most philosophers, theist and nontheist alike, agree the problem of evil is the most compelling challenge to theism. To be clear, I think the problem of evil successfully defeats theism, it’s just not the main reason I’m a nontheist.
“Yahweh was a local storm god” is one of those things that’s “not even wrong.” Was he? Well not really, but neither was anybody else.
The author of Mark tells us that to the sons of Zebedee, Jesus “added a name, ‘Boanerges,’ which is to say, ‘Sons of Thunder’.”
The problem is that this is not what ‘Boanerges’ means! Or rather, it might be, but the author’s transliteration here is downright baffling. Scholars have called it garbled, confusing, and just “bad.” The first h…
What we (don't) know about the apostle John of Zebedee, Part 2: Patristics